University of Missouri chancellor, president resign amid race backlash
 

The chancellor of the University of Missouri's flagship campus in Columbia became the latest school official Monday to announce that he will be stepping down at the end of the year.

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin's announcement came hours after the university system's president, Tim Wolfe, said he was resigning, effective immediately, in the face of growing protests -- including the threat of a faculty and student walkout -- over his handling of a spate of racially charged incidents.

Wolfe's fate appeared to have been sealed when the University?s football team drew national attention to the campus protests by announcing during the weekend that they would not participate in team activities until Wolfe was removed. Head coach Gary Pinkel and athletic director Mack Rhoades expressed solidarity with the players and showed support for Jonathan Butler, a Missouri student staging a hunger strike.

In the end, Wolfe said he hoped his resignation could lead to healing.

?It is my belief that we stopped listening to each other,? Wolfe said during his statement. ?We didn?t respond or react. We got frustrated with each other and we forced individuals like Jonathan Butler to take immediate action, unusual steps to affect change. This is not ? I repeat, not ? the way change should come about. Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation and we have top respect each other enough to stop yelling at each other and quit intimidating each other."

?Unfortunately this has not happened,? Wolfe said.

The University of Missouri System said late Monday it plans to enact several initiatives in the next 90 days to address racial turmoil that led to the resignations of Wolfe and Loftin.

The university system said in a news release that it will appoint its first chief officer for diversity, inclusion and equity. It also plans a review of all university policies related to staff and student conduct and to provide more support to those who experience discrimination. It also pledges to work toward a more diverse faculty and staff.

Task forces addressing inclusion will be required on all four of its campuses.

Butler said Monday he would end the hunger strike he began on Nov. 2. Pinkel and Rhoades said the football team would resume its regular activities.

The protests began after the student government president, who is black, said in September that people in a passing pickup truck shouted racial slurs at him. In early October, members of a black student organization said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student. Recently, a swastika drawn in human feces was found in a dormitory bathroom.

More recently, two trucks flying Confederate flags drove past a site where 150 students had gathered to protest on Sunday, a move some saw as an attempt at intimidation. One of the participants, Abigail Hollis, a black undergraduate, said the campus is "unhealthy and unsafe for us."

"The way white students are treated is in stark contrast to the way black students and other marginalized students are treated, and it's time to stop that," Hollis said. "It's 2015."

Wolfe, who has been president since 2012, said he took full responsibility ?for the reaction that has occurred.?

?I ask everybody from students, faculty, staff, my friends to use my resignation to heal and to start talking again,? he said. ?To make the changes necessary. And let?s focus on changing what we can change today and in the future, not on what we can?t change about what happened in the past.?

Gov. Jay Nixon said Wolfe's resignation was a necessary step toward "healing and reconciliation" at the school.

Wolfe's announcement was a stark departure from his tone Sunday, when he said that a ?change is needed? but did not indicate that he would step down.

The Concerned Student 1950 group, which draws its name from the year the university accepted its first black student, had demanded, among other things, that Wolfe "acknowledge his white male privilege," that he be removed immediately, and that the school adopt a mandatory racial-awareness program and hire more black faculty and staff.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reported that Wolfe was confronted outside a fundraising event in Kansas City Friday night by protesters who asked him to define systemic oppression. According to video of the encounter posted on Twitter, Wolfe responded that the students may not like his answer before saying, "Systematic oppression is because you don?t believe that you have the equal opportunity for success ?"

That statement provoked anger from the protesters, one of whom asked "Did you just blame us for systematic oppression, Tim Wolfe?" as the president walked away.

Reuben Faloughi, a doctoral student at MU and member of Concerned Student 1950, said the ?MU for Mike Brown? protests last year helped build momentum for Concerned Student 1950.

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When Africans claim "dass waciss" everybody must bow down and meet their demands.

Too bad the black community fucks around with silly bullshit like this instead of focusing on their real problems. :2 cents:

What is worse - white communities giving in to that silly bullshit.
Parasitic libtards somehow managed to condition society like that.

they showed the school that blacks make the team :2 cents::2 cents: talk shit you lose :1orglaugh:1orglaugh name a team without brothas

The school didn't care about the kid on the hunger strike. It took action when the players on the football team said we are done playing. Would cost the school more money then the Prez was worth.

Blackmail power! :thumbsup

A 4-5 team! Just wait until a better team starts making demands

Marxists win as usual. Back to sleep!

i want in on some history

:1orglaugh

keep it up the nfl falls :2 cents::2 cents:

If Michael Sam didn't drop that soap

Bullshit, the NFL will be fine. It's the morons that strike that won't be playing for the NFL.

turn on the tv! who makes the numbers??? :2 cents::2 cents: :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Whoever is playing. And that won't be some idiot that refuses to play college ball in a misguided attempt to fight racism.

I hope organization coaches will make arrangements to make sure those idiots will be playing less minutes next season.

Wife beaters unite !

They had no choice. To not support them would be construed as racist. And it would mean losing control of the team.

I never said it was reluctant, its simply smart management of people based on managers being painted into a corner. There is absolutely zero upside to not doing so or being neutral on a racial issue in that position.

Good, its settled.

I recently had to learn a new and difficult chord transition to be able to play one of my favorite songs on guitar.

Boy, was I so not reluctant to have to do that!

I had to drive 50mph in 65mph zone today due to some road hazards, boy was I reluctant to have to do that!

Those aren't choices, they are dependent variables. I think its from college algebra 101.
A choice would be driving on another road or going to Southern University instead of U of M.

I'm not surprised you find making decisions to arrive at goals strange. You already revealed that by not understanding those coaches had to show support for the team and as smart managers quickly realized the upside in doing so and consequently, not reluctant about their smart choice. That team will quickly be back out on the gridiron and playing hard for coach. I get that.

Choices are based on reasons.

Not if the solution is to make it from point A to B in shortest amount of time.
Never made it to Intro to Algebra class, didn't you?

You see its like this.
a. You are color blind and the only color you see is "plump". Now this is dependent variable and you can't really change it because it will mess up entire equation.

b. You are an idiot or trying to be cute and pick color plump for no apparent reason. This is independent variable because solution to this equation is zero. Thus meaning you could be either one, because when you multiply by zero you still get a zero.

BM serious question, Was this all started because the pres didn't do anything about the race problems in the school? The students were getting pissed and did this to out him? Is that an outline of how this went down?
I have read several different stories and it is not talked about much.

there is a civil case so you won't see much :2 cents::2 cents:

coaching a college football team is a choice. once the choice is made, then how to coach (lead) the team decisions need to be made. just like all adult decisions.

The resident racist strikes again!

that's right. he/they didn't have a choice. the only smart choice was to show solidarity with the team. it would have been foolish to take a stand against the players or to try and be neutral to their actions re: racism on campus.

smart people managers know what i'm talking about

Im not introducing anything. Its a simple equation so let me use the methods I used in math lab as a TA.

You and I went to a party. You drank 5 times more glasses of Boones Farm than I.
so if I drank 5 glasses we would be looking at this.

X=2 x Y
where X is you. This is called dependent variables.

Now lets introduce our friend brassmonkey in to equation and say that both of you had 5 times more than I did. Not you have what we call independent variables. Because (pay close attention) you could have 1 glass on Boones and BM 24. Or you could have 2 and BM 23. You see the difference?

X + BM = 5 x Y
Consider this to be you GED test.

No, wrong again "boy was I reluctant to have to do that!" This expressed guaranty that he was in the hurry to get some place. Had he said he was reluctant to stop at the bar and get a beer you'd have an argument. Right now you look stupid once again.

not unlike your opinion that those coaches put their jobs on the line because the chancellor didn't handle a couple racial slurs like the 19 year old football players thought he should.